Seven Sorrows and Joys of Saint Joseph This devotion owes its origin to a celebrated event, never omitted by any historian of the Saint. It is as follows: Two Fathers of the Franciscan order were sailing along the coast of Flanders, when a terrible tempest arose, which sank the vessel, with its three hundred passengers….
In Dom Prosper Gueranger’s write up for the 7th day in the Octave of All Saints, which is November 7, he concludes with this piece of St. Ephrem & a prayer afterwards For the consolation of mothers, as well as in homage to the Paradise of which their children are the graceful flowers, we will…
Prayer for Gift of Tears Sign of the cross † In the Name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit † Amen. [Ⱥ] Almighty and most gentle God, who brought forth from the rock a fountain of living water for your thirsty people, bring forth we pray, from the hardness…
The Beauty of the Blessed Mother From the book “The AfterLife: Purgatory & Heaven Explained” by Rev. Dolindo Ruotolo there is a segment on the soul contemplating Mary. Fr. Ruotolo asked Bruno Cornacchiola, of the visions of Our Lady of Revelation, to describe to him the beauty of the Blessed Mother’s face. Bruno answered, “It was…
Prayer for the Beatification of Dom Prosper Guéranger God our Father, your servant Dom Prosper Guéranger, Abbot of Solesmes, guided by the Holy Spirit, helped a multitude of your faithful people rediscover the meaning of the liturgy as the source of true Christian life. May his devotion to your Holy Church and his filial love…
The 54 day Rosary Novena history Among the numerous texts and prayers written by Blessed Bartolo Longo, there is the “Novena of Petition”, composed in July of 1879. Having been struck down with typhoid fever, Bartolo Longo wrote it in order to ask for graces in the most desperate cases. Every day he went before…
To get an image of Garcia Moreno’s image of the Sacred Heart that Fr Mateo used please visit this link here To get a Holy Face image touched to the relic please go to Vicki’s Etsy shop here or to download a print here For the prayers for night adoration at the home please…
Holy Cloak of St. Joseph Novena Call on St. Joseph’s Special Patronage This precious treasury of prayers in honour of St. Joseph is to be prayed for 30 days, commemorating the earthly thirty years which St. Joseph spent in the company of our Lord. St. Teresa of Avila vouched for its efficaciousness, writing “If you…